Computational Thinking in Science and Math
III - Number and Pressure
In the previous two lessons, we qualitatively explored:
- the behavior of gas particles inside fixed volume containers
- and how the simultaneous behavior of many gas particles at micro-level result in a macro-level property, pressure.
In this lesson, we are going to start developing quantitative relationships between the macro-level properties of gasses. To do so, we will use a slightly different version of the bike tire model from the lesson 2 and a quantitative data analysis application called CODAP.
The goals of this lesson are:
- What is the relationship between the number of particles in a gas container and gas pressure?
- How can we design experiments within computational models to collect quantitative data?
- How can we analyze quantitative data using CODAP to determine a mathematical relationship between our two variables?
